Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Representing knowledge: reading the Encyclopédie
- 2 Enlightenment critique and Diderot's art of philosophizing
- 3 The matter of judgment and the art of phrasing sensation
- 4 Critical narratives: Diderot's Salons
- 5 Embodying knowledge
- 6 Portraying Diderot: the aftermath
- 7 Interpreting Diderot: critical values, critical violence
- Notes
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in French
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Representing knowledge: reading the Encyclopédie
- 2 Enlightenment critique and Diderot's art of philosophizing
- 3 The matter of judgment and the art of phrasing sensation
- 4 Critical narratives: Diderot's Salons
- 5 Embodying knowledge
- 6 Portraying Diderot: the aftermath
- 7 Interpreting Diderot: critical values, critical violence
- Notes
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in French
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- The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century FranceDiderot and the Art of Philosophizing, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993